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...Grand National. Crowds clogged the mist-streaked course, restless with suspense and excitement. Sixteen jumps obstruct the Aintree Course, 14 of which must be twice crossed before the finish. Annual efforts are made by well-intentioned groups of the British public to reduce the number and the rigor of the hazards. At the 82nd Grand National only one horse finished without a fall...
Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
...majority of college students are not students at all; they are guests of an institution which will, after four years, provide them with a document valuable to the continuity of a family tradition or in the furtherance of business enterprise. The nonchalance of the undergraduate is met by the rigor of the system. The majority will not think; they must memorize. We do not admire the present institutions, but we must dig far deeper than the academic superstructure if we are to find primary weaknesses or lay the foundations for a better edifice of learning...
...question. As regards the employment of her submarines, Germany, instead of withholding her threat until the moment of capture, as is the British practice, gives warning in advance that any vessel entering the prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor of this decree by providing a restricted sea-lane which may be used by American passenger vessels with impunity. This restriction constitutes, to be sure, a decided handicap; but one can only ask: "What regard has the British Admiralty shown, during the course of the war, for the rights or convenience...
...many members of the regiment, and not many citizens of the neighborhoods which the regiment will invade in the course of its Sunday adventures, still hold to the Puritan idea of Sunday in all its ancient rigor. But there are still a great many on both sides who would regret to see the distinction between this day and the rest wiped out, or even to see the American Sunday become indistinguishable from the Continental Sunday. Whether this idea is a prejudice, a sentiment, or a religious principle, it deserves our respect; and we shall not recommend the regiment...